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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Planetarium"”.
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The application of the planetarium as an education tool
"Planetariums are considered to be educationally valuable Teaching Tools and there seems to exist a Demand for them; but for a Variety of Reasons Planetariums are underused in Education." The study was stimulated by the fact that the planetarium as a theme has been completely neglected by …
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Characterizing the digital planetarium as a teaching and learning space
The modern planetarium exists today as a digital immersive facility with a multitude of capabilities and applications while also being tied to its analog roots among instructional media in astronomy education. I characterized the use of the digital planetarium as a teaching and learning space by …
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A National Survey of Planetarium Directors Operating Public-School-Owned Planetaria
… study of public-school-owned and operated planetarium facilities across the United States. A random sample of 210 planetarium directors was selected, and 131 were used in the data analysis to benchmark current practices involving public school planetaria in five domains: (1) the job of …
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A Study of the Effectiveness of the Planetarium and the Classroom in the Teaching of Constellations
… star fields, (2) teaching constellations in the planetarium by means of 35mm slides of hand drawn constellation star fields, and (3) teaching constellations by means of a planetarium sky, and the Ss represented three age categories: children, teenagers, and adults. The total number of Ss …
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An Earthly Cosmology
… explores the design of a nature center and planetarium within Rock Creek Park, in Washington, DC. The project evolved from a desire to re-imagine a relationship with nature in a way that allows conversation, reflective thinking, and allows one's sense of wonder to enter a place which is …
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Adapting the OpenRelativity toolkit to multi-perspective dome projection
… investigates the combination of a full-dome planetarium experience with the intuitive explanations and visuals of the OpenRelativity game engine. From its inception, OpenRelativity was meant as a toolkit to produce many learning experiences, and this thesis represents the latest attempt to …
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Astronomy Week: An Investigation Of The Implementation And Identity Formation Of Participants
… and accepted a visit from the starlab mobile planetarium. Data consisted of field notes from classroom observations, interviews with students and teachers, the Draw a Scientist Test (DAST), and surveys from both teachers and students. Results provide evidence that this outreach effort was a …
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Galaxy groups in the updated 2MRS using a graph-theory based friends-of-friends algorithm
… including immersive facilities, a digital planetarium, and virtual reality. This has resulted in a stable and robust catalogue with on-sky positions and line-of-sight distances within 0.5 Mpc and 2 Mpc of the group respectively. It has recovered all major groups and clusters. The final …
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Taking Mormons Seriously: Ethics of Representing Latter-day Saints in American Fiction
… briefly examine Walter Kirn's short stories “Planetarium” and “Whole Other Bodies.” Using Werner Sollors' and Matthew Frye Jacobson's writings on ethnicity as foundational, I argue in that Mormonism constitutes an ethnicity, which designation accentuates the ethical demands of those who …
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Le Passage - Towards the Concept of a New Knowledge Instrument
… for spherical displays, first inside fulldome planetariums, and currently also inside further 360° media formats such as VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), and MR (Mixed Reality). The methodology is further underpinned by a media archaeology and interrogated through an ethnographic …
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Desarrollo de composites magnetostrictivos de FeAl y FeGa para su aplicación en sensores de deformación
… grinding, in an Attritor mill, and another in a Planetarium mill, of ribbons of the same composition obtained by melt spinning technique. The reason for using these ribbons is that, as indicated in the literature and as we have verified so, the Fe-Al ribbons obtained by melt spinning have a high …
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Nosná konstrukce planetária v Šumperku
Předmětem bakalářské práce je návrh a posouzení nosné konstrukce planetária nad kruhovým půdorysem. Konstrukce je uvažována ve tvaru polokoule s průměrem 26 metrů. Návrh kopule je vytvořen v několika variantách, a to jako Schwedlerova kopule 1. stupně, 2. stupně a modifikovaná, dále kopule Föpplova …